This Genealogy Guide provides genealogical databases, websites, and bibliographies to aid users in the pursuit of their family history and origins.
In addition to this guide, many genealogical resources can be found in The Virginia Room, located on the second floor of the City of Fairfax Regional Library. The Virginia Room contains genealogical print holdings and online databases for almost all 50 states in addition to many countries.
Contact The Virginia Room for genealogical assistance.
Local historian, genealogist, and author Char McCargo Bah will present, “Finding the Enslaved Descendants of a Virginia Plantation.” Joint Virginia Room/Fairfax Genealogical Society program. …
Learn how to spot the clues which help to identify multiple enslavers and follow the enslaved families who were separated by wills and moved across the state - never to see each other again. Presente…
Discover how academic scholarship can support and inform your genealogy research.
Presented by Timothy Pinnick, nationally known genealogist and author.
Join the African American Special In…
This presentation by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson is based on “Parents for Isaac Garrett of Laurens County, South Carolina: DNA Corroborates Oral Tradition,” which won the National Genealogical Socie…
